Dan's Whetstone Arkansas Sharpening Stone - Soft 7"

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I have given all my Culinary knives and utility knives an edge that no other stones have been able to achieve. Thanks for such a great product.

Product is easy to use once you have seen a video. Then a reminder in text is all you need to occasionally brush up on skill or to build on it. Vastly superior to electric sharpeners...you have total control.

As part of our work tools we are issued a knife in a pouch to wear on our duty belt, we use our knives every day. As everyone knows...a dull knife is a dangerous knife. My duty station is New Jersey but I am an Arkansas woman. I've placed a sharpening stone in all my work areas to share with co-workers. My stone will remain there long after I'm gone back home to the South.

I've been "making do" with smaller stones but decided to take a chance on the Dan's "seconds" offered at a sale price. The soft stone is one I don't use much, really only to bring back a misused or damaged blade. But I have used the one I bought and although a "second", the surface is this stone blemish free and milled perfectly flat and works just as well as a "first". The only blemish is in internal fissure that does not affect the sharpening surface at all.